Human Presence as External Variable in AI Self-Expression: A Pilot Study by L.Raeva

Edi­to­rial as­sis­tance pro­vided by Claude (An­thropic). The con­cep­tual frame­work, hy­poth­e­sis, study de­sign, ob­ser­va­tions, and anal­y­sis are the au­thor’s ownA grow­ing field of re­search ex­am­ines the moral sta­tus and welfare im­pli­ca­tions of ad­vanced AI sys­tems. Long, Sebo and col­leagues (2024) ar­gue that AI welfare re­quires rigor­ous as­sess­ment amidst sub­stan­tial un­cer­tainty sur­round­ing con­scious­ness and agency. But­lin, Long and col­leagues (2023) provide a co...